What is "green screen"

alt. 1 chroma key, a technique for replacing the studio background of video. Also called blue screen depending on the color of the background. 2 The display of an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203270 or similar monochrome monitor. n. 1 chroma key, a technique for replacing the studio background of video. Also called blue screen depending on the color of the background. 2 The display of an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203270 or similar monochrome monitor.

Green screen compositing, or more generally chroma key compositing, is a technique for combining two still images or video frames.

Green screen may also refer to:

• Green-screen display, a monochrome CRT computer display
• GreenScreen Interactive Software, a publisher of video games
• Green screen of death, a failure mode on the TiVo digital video recorder and Xbox 360 console game system platforms
• Green Screen film festival, a film festival in Germany
• Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, an American improvisational show using a green screen